EU steps in to make sure Google gives rivals access to AI services and data

The European Union is stepping successful to guarantee Google gives rival AI companies and hunt engines entree to information and Gemini AI services

BRUSSELS -- The European Union said Tuesday it's stepping successful to marque definite Google gives rival AI companies and hunt engines entree to Gemini AI services and information arsenic required by the bloc's flagship integer rulebook.

The enforcement limb of the 27-nation bloc said it was opening up alleged “ specification proceedings " to guarantee that Google complies with the sweeping Digital Markets Act, which requires Big Tech companies to springiness smaller players adjacent entree to hardware and bundle features.

Brussels said portion of the proceedings volition specify however Google should springiness third-party AI companies “equally effectual entree to the aforesaid features” disposable done its ain services.

The EU volition besides look astatine whether Google is giving competing hunt engines just and tenable entree to Google Search data. This volition see whether AI chatbot providers are eligible to entree to the data.

The proceedings autumn abbreviated of an probe and indispensable wrapper up successful six months with draught measures that Brussels volition enforce connected Google.

Clare Kelly, Google's elder contention counsel, said she was acrophobic astir the reasons down the procedure.

“Android is unfastened by design, and we’re already licensing Search information to competitors nether the DMA," Kelly said successful a statement. "However, we are acrophobic that further rules which are often driven by rival grievances alternatively than the involvement of consumers, volition compromise idiosyncratic privacy, security, and innovation.”

Teresa Ribera, who oversees contention affairs arsenic enforcement vice president of the European Commission, says it seeks to “maximize the imaginable and the benefits of this profound technological displacement by making definite the playing tract is unfastened and fair, not tilted successful favour of the largest few."

The determination adds EU unit connected Google, which is facing antitrust scrutiny aft the bloc's regulators past twelvemonth started investigating whether the institution gave itself an unfair vantage done the usage of online contented for its AI models and services.

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